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Originally posted by Tman144
Killconey, so if I kill you, nobody should get mad at me because God made it so that I should kill you. People who believe in the bible have no right to tell others how to live because God knows its going to happen.
This goes to my next question, how can God test us if he already knows the answer? After reading the book of Job, I began to think, why didn't God just tell Satan as he was first walking up to God what was going to happen before Satan asked his question?
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Using God as a scapegoat is incorrect - knowing what is occuring is not the same as perpetrating the crime. Though many argue that if God exists then he is either malicious or irresponsible.
From a practical sense, we can't blame God, therefore we must blame the mortal agent. If you pull the trigger, we put you in jail or in the chair, because we can. We can't punish God, but we can punish people.
In the end, modern society in general functions smoothly only if we consider it independent of God's intervention. After all - if all of our actions are God's doing, then He is the one damning the sinners to Hell, not the sinners themselves, and that just doesn't make any sense at all.
At this point, I suppose a real believer would jump in with something about mere humans not understanding God's grand scheme, etc. But I'm not a believer so I'm not going to go there.
Also, I suggest being careful when you make sweeping semi-hate statements regarding an entire group's rights - especially when you say little or nothing to support your claims and lack any authority to dictate said rights.